National security is unlikely to become an issue when discussing disaster assistance if disaster management measures are addressed proactively during a time of normalcy, and not only during a crisis. Completing risk assessment and disaster research ahead of time is a good countermeasure to the risks a nation is already prone to. To do so, collaborative efforts have to be made across national jurisdictions. Nations will need a transboundary perspective to deploy data collecting technologies and attain interoperability amongst regional knowledge systems. Most often, countries are less committed to regional declarations and policies due to deeper concerns about their own internal exigencies. Additionally, from the military's perspective, there exist serious concerns regarding national security when information sharing across jurisdictions is considered. This can be viewed as a national security risk in itself. This fear of rendering a nation vulnerable through information sharing is the military's chief discomfort with military-civilian cooperation efforts.